I began this work when the Silent Hours commenced, and all else were asleep; believe that I did not paused till the path back into thy world was clear.

I shall be with thee a little while yet.
We do not part until thou sayest, 'Go, for I need thee no more.'" My heart smote me with remorse at these words.

"Ah!" I exclaimed, "would that thou wert of my race or I of thine, then I should never say, 'I need thee no more.'" "I bless thee for those words, and I shall remember them when thou art gone," answered the Gy, tenderly.
During this brief interchange of words, Zee had turned away from me, her form bent and her head bowed over her breast.

Now, she rose to the full height of her grand stature, and stood fronting me.

While she had been thus averted from my gaze, she had lighted up the circlet that she wore round her brow, so that it blazed as if it were a crown of stars.